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$ whoami
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10+ years building cloud infrastructure for startups, Fortune 500, and US government security teams. Currently Platform Engineer @ TikTok USDS, securing offensive security operations across four major cloud providers.

$ [location] SF Bay Area, CA
[email] [linkedin]
$ scroll-down --section=skills_
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skills.sh

$ cat skills.txt | sort -u

// Cloud Platforms
AWS GCP Azure OCI Alibaba Cloud
// Orchestration
Kubernetes GKE AKS EKS Helm Docker ArgoCD
// IaC & Automation
Terraform Ansible Puppet CloudFormation
// CI/CD
GitHub Actions Argo Rollouts Concourse CI Jenkins Azure DevOps
// Languages
Python Bash
// Observability
Datadog Grafana Prometheus Splunk
// Security
Wiz Aqua Elastic SIEM Kibana SentinelOne
// AI / ML Infra
GCP Vertex AI Gemini API LLM Pipelines MCP Tooling
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experience.log

$ git log --oneline --author="Slava"

Platform Engineer  @  TikTok (USDS) CURRENT
San Francisco, CA Nov 2024 – Present

Offensive Security Operations — securing OSO infrastructure across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.

  • Architected LLM deployment pipeline on internal GPU cluster; saved $240k+ annually, eliminating a 6-month H100 procurement lead time for AI safety and bias testing.
  • Built proprietary Attack Surface Management (ASM) tool from 0→1 in Python to continuously analyze the division's external attack surface; saved $200k+ annually, replacing commercial alternatives.
  • Designed and implemented CI/CD pipelines for exploit development and deployment workflows; owned GitHub Enterprise adoption for the division, authored DevSecOps guidelines and repository security standards.
AWSAzureGCP OCIKubernetesAnsible TerraformArgoCDGitHub Actions PythonBashGemini API DevinGitHub Copilot
Senior Infrastructure Engineer  @  Highnote
San Francisco, CA Jun 2023 – Nov 2024

FinTech startup — modern card and payment platform.

  • Rebuilt container security posture: PSP → Pod Security Standards migration; +20% compliance, unblocked K8s upgrade path.
  • Launched Argo Rollouts for canary deployments across all production services, enabling swift rollback.
  • Achieved CIS benchmark compliance for GCP and AWS; pivotal in securing a major bank partnership.
GCPAWSGKE TerraformArgo Rollouts GitHub ActionsWiz
Cloud Solutions Architect  @  Altoros
US (Remote) Apr 2022 – May 2023
  • Built Azure AKS security analysis POCs; GitHub Actions automation cut testing time 50% and manual effort 40%.
  • Trained 5 platform engineers at Canada's largest bank on VMware Tanzu; enhanced Concourse CI pipelines reducing deployment failures.
KubernetesAzureAKS GitHub ActionsVMware TanzuConcourse CI
Solutions Architect  @  CTDev
Minsk, Belarus Jul 2020 – Mar 2022
  • Designed cloud-native reporting solution on Azure + Alibaba Cloud for the world's largest reinsurance company.
AzureAlibaba Cloud KubernetesHelmTerraform
Cloud Solutions Architect  @  Altoros
US / Australia / Belarus Oct 2018 – Jul 2020
  • Led global cloud transformations for Fortune 500 clients — Toyota, Vanguard, eBay/StubHub, AAA; reduced cloud costs up to 50%.
  • Tech Lead for PCF delivery at Vanguard (AWS + vSphere); GitOps pipelines cut upgrade time 50%.
  • Trained teams on PCF, Bosh, and Concourse CI across client engagements in the US and Australia.
AWSAzureTerraform Concourse CIVMware TanzuPCF Cloud Foundry
Systems Engineer / DevOps  @  EPAM Systems
Minsk, Belarus Sep 2017 – Oct 2018
  • Administered CI/CD infrastructure serving 30,000 users; defined SLOs/SLIs and maintained on-call rotation.
  • Automated provisioning workflows with Puppet, reducing configuration drift and manual toil.
JenkinsPuppet GitLabRed Hat Linux
Lead System Administrator  @  Information Center
Minsk, Belarus Oct 2014 – Aug 2017
  • Built and managed PKI infrastructure based on virtualization and Linux.
LinuxPKI Virtualization
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certs_and_awards.json

$ jq '.[]' certs.json

Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect Expert
Google Professional Cloud Architect
CNCF Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Microsoft GitHub Copilot

// Recognition

[#]
Alibaba Cloud MVP · DevOps Institute Ambassador (Oct 2023–Present) · CD Foundation Ambassador (Apr 2024–Apr 2025)
// ============================================================

community.md

$ cat community.md

// Volunteering & Judging

[J]
CODiE Awards Judge — SIIA, 2023 & 2025
[J]
Globee Awards — Industry Expert & Judge — 2022

IT World Awards, Golden Bridge Awards, Disruptor Company Awards, American Best in Business Awards

[J]
Hackathon Judge — HackNYU (Feb 2022), HackGSU (Mar 2022), Mega Hackathon (Apr 2022)

// Technical Reviewer

[B]
Developing Cloud-Native Solutions with Microsoft Azure and .NET — Apress, 2022
[B]
Architecting a Modern Data Warehouse for Large Enterprises — Apress, 2023
[B]
Embracing DevOps Release Management — Packt, 2024
[B]
Kubernetes Anti Patterns — Packt, 2024
[B]
Microsoft Copilot in Azure: AI-powered Cloud Automation and Optimization — Packt, 2025

// HackerNoon Contributor of the Year — Noonies 2022

[★]
Master of the Edge of Computing · Azure · China · CI/CD · Serverless

// Courses

[C]
DevOps Get Started — Udemy, Mar 2022–Present

Docker, Azure, Linux, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, AKS

[C]
CI/CD and DevOps: The Ultimate Jenkins Masterclass — KnowledgeHut, Nov 2022–Feb 2023
// ============================================================

education.md

Master's Degree in Computer Science Belarusian National Technical University 2010 – 2015 · Minsk, Belarus